The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.